Stereoscopically illustrated book. Teneriffe - An Astronomer's Experiment, by C. Piazzi Smyth. Published by Lowell Reeve in 1858. The hard bound book has over 450 pages and is illustrated with 20 real photographic stereo views.
1858
Book cover
Stereographica - Antique Photographica
Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#17 / 282)
LL/17483 [Further details available]
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Stereoscopically illustrated book. Teneriffe - An Astronomer's Experiment, by C. Piazzi Smyth. Published by Lowell Reeve in 1858. The hard bound book has over 450 pages and is illustrated with 20 real photographic stereo views.
1858
Book cover
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/60976
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Title page for C[harles] Piazzi Smyth, 1858, Teneriffe - An Astronomer's Experiment, (London: Lowell Reeve)
1858
Title page
Rijksmuseum
RP-F-2001-7-352-1
LL/78809 [Further details available]
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Stereoscopic Book Illustrations - Mr. C. Piazzi Smith's forthcoming account
1857, 31 October
Magazine page
Google Books
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Advert for Piazzi Smyth Teneriffe - An Astronomer's Experiment; or, Specialities of a Residfence above the Clouds
1859 (advert published)
Advert
Hathi Trust
Harvard University, HOLLIS, Botany Arboretum GEN (Tidd N48), HOLLIS No: 990072293700203941
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Peak of Teneriffe from Orotava, from the northern coast
1850-1858
Albumen print, stereograph
Rijksmuseum
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Sheepshanks telescope first erected on Mount Guajara, the Peak of Teneriffe in the distance
1850-1858
Albumen print, stereograph
Rijksmuseum
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Sheepshanks telescope first erected on Mount Guajara, the Peak of Teneriffe in the distance
1856
Stereoview
Archive Farms
LL/104237
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Culminating point of the Peak of Teneriffe, 12,198 feet high showing the interior of the terminal crater of the mountain
1850-1858
Albumen print, stereograph
Rijksmuseum
RP-F-F25713-A
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Cliff and floor of the Great Crater - eight miles in diameter, and 7000 feet above the sea - under Mount Guajara
1850-1858
Albumen print, stereograph
Rijksmuseum
RP-F-F25713-F
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Cliff and floor of the Great Crater - eight miles in diameter, and 7000 feet above the sea - under Mount Guajara
1850-1858
Albumen print, stereograph
Archive Farms
The Patrick Montgomery Collection, Object No. 2017.129
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Second mate of yacht observing radiation thermometers on Mount Guajara
1850-1858
Albumen print, stereograph
Rijksmuseum
RP-F-F25713-G
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Illustration from Teneriffe - An Astronomer's Experiment, by C. Piazzi Smyth.
1858
Stereo
Stereographica - Antique Photographica
Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#17 / 282)
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Volcanic "Blowing Cone" in Orotava, on the northern coast of Teneriffe
1850-1858
Albumen print, stereograph
Rijksmuseum
RP-F-F25713-B
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Dragon-Tree walk at a palazzo near Orotava
1850-1858
Albumen print, stereograph
Rijksmuseum
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Tent scene of Mount Guajara, 8903 feet high
1850-1858
Albumen print, stereograph
Rijksmuseum
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Tent scene of Mount Guajara, 8903 feet high
1856
Stereoview
Archive Farms
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Alta Vista Observatory, from the northern lava ridge
1850-1858
Albumen print, stereograph
Rijksmuseum
RP-F-F25713-L
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Young Dragon-Trees (Dracoena Draco) near Orotava
1850-1858
Albumen print, stereograph
Rijksmuseum
RP-F-F25713-P
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Cochineal Gatherers at Orotava
1850-1858
Albumen print, stereograph
Rijksmuseum
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The "Great Dragon-Tree" at the villa de Orotava
1850-1858
Albumen print, stereograph
Rijksmuseum
RP-F-F25713-S
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Trunk of the Great Dragon-Tree
1850-1858
Albumen print, stereograph
Rijksmuseum
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Trachyte blocks on Guajara
1850-1858
Albumen print, stereograph
Rijksmuseum
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Masses of lava slag at Alta Vista
1850-1858
Albumen print, stereograph
Rijksmuseum
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Young Dragon-Trees and date palm in a cactus garden near Orotava
1850-1858
Albumen print, stereograph
Rijksmuseum
RP-F-F25713-O
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Euphorbia Canariensis on the sea-coast of Orotava
1850-1858
Albumen print, stereograph
Rijksmuseum
RP-F-F25713-N
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Entrance to the ice cavern, in the malpays of the Peak of Teneriffe, at the height of 11,040 feet
1850-1858
Albumen print, stereograph
Rijksmuseum
RP-F-F25713-M
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Entrance to the Ice Cavern in The Malpays on the Peak of Teneriffe
1856
Stereoview
Archive Farms
The Patrick Montgomery Collection, Object No. 2017.122
LL/117555
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